My Insane Pace

09: Cyghfer

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The legendary Cyghfer drops in this week to share his long history with speedrunning and its infancy, why he took a break from running himself in the last few years, and why he can never truly get away from speedrunning (and doesn’t want to). Check out his stuff ->

Cyghfer -> Twitch | Twitter | GDQ Vids

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  • Shoutouts to Masashi Kageyama for writing this just insane outro that was somehow unused in Gimmick!, the game it was written for.

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    Show Notes

    2:53 – How did you get into speedrunning?

    • Shoutouts to Mega Man 2
    • Shoutouts to the Morimoto Video
    • Shoutouts to Shadow of the Ninja – LygarofFortune’s Run
    • Shoutouts to Classic Games Done Quick
    • Shoutouts to Contra 3 
    • Shoutouts to Andrew G and the glitch he found

      • 5:20 – How did the community interact before Twitch?

      • Shoutouts to the Speed Demos Archive Forums
      • Shoutouts to The-Elite.net

        • 7:00 – Why did you choose the games you chose?

        • Shoutouts to CardsoftheHeart – Tetris Attack
        • Shoutouts to Kirby’s Avalanche 
        • Shoutouts to Wario’s Woods
        • Shoutouts to Super Mario RPG
        • Shoutouts to Romscout
        • Shoutouts to CoolKid
        • Shoutouts to Seth Glass – Here is his goodbye to speedrunning – From this thread)

          • 11:40 – Difficult Games – Gimmick! discussion

          • Shoutouts to Super Metroid
          • Shoutouts to Super Mario 64
          • Shoutouts to Drizzle
          • Shoutouts to Gimmick! – One of cyghfer’s runs of the game
          • Gimmick Best Ending
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